“Misunderstandings and lethargy perhaps lead to more complications in the affairs of the world than trickery and wickedness. At least, the two latter are surely more common.”
More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you.”
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”